Italy

Salvini said Mare Jonio should have let Libyan coastguard pick up the migrants. Failing that, it should have taken them either to Libya or Tunisia rather than disobey initial orders not to enter Italian waters. Here's The Full Story…

“If it’s about helping Italian companies invest abroad, then we are ready to talk to anyone,” League leader Matteo Salvini told reporters. “But we’re absolutely not ready to do so if it’s a question of foreign companies colonizing Italy.”Here's The Full Story…

Tensions between the two sides had escalated ahead of a Monday deadline for the company overseeing the project, TELT, to launch tenders to carry out works on it. Get the full story.Here's The Full Story…

Luigi di Maio, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement hailed the “winds of change across the Alps” yesterday on Twitter after meeting with Yellow Vest activists Cristophe Chalencon and Ingrid Levavasseur.Here's The Full Story…

“This is not about me. …Fighting illegal immigration is of pre-eminent public interest. I am convinced I acted in Italy’s best interests and in full respect of my mandate. I would do it again.” – Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.Here's The Full Story…

“In Libya’s current context, where outbreaks of violence and widespread human rights violations prevail, no rescued refugees and migrants should be returned there,” Charlie Yaxley, spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, told a briefing.Here's The Full Story…

“In Libya, France has no interest in stabilising the situation, probably because it has oil interests that are opposed to those of Italy.” – Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini told Canale 5 TV station.Here's The Full Story…

“France is one of those countries that by printing money for 14 African states prevents their economic development and contributes to the fact that the refugees leave and then die in the sea or arrive on our coasts.” Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio.Here's The Full Story…

“We would be hypocrites if we just continued to talk about the effects without looking for the causes. If today we have people coming from Africa it’s because some European countries like France never stopped colonizing Africa in their heads,” Italian deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio said.Here's The Full Story…

Two Italian MPs have been busted for mixing passion with politics after being secretly recorded having sex in a bathroom at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, according to Italian media outlets. Here's The Full Story…

Interior Minister and right-wing League party leader Matteo Salvini: “I’m willing to host women and children who are escaping from war … But all the others, no. I don’t want to be seen as an idiot.”Here's The Full Story…